Michelle Wisbey reports: The personal details of a large number of GPs have been published online, in a data breach leaving doctors feeling ‘significantly concerned’. Australian healthcare educator Healthed confirmed that late on Sunday, 14 July, the company became aware of ‘a vulnerability within the Healthed website’ It traced this to work undertaken by a…
Category: Non-U.S.
Students’ Personal Data Mismanaged; Data Sent to Foreign Businesses, Used to Update Apps
The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: Local governments have authorized Recruit Co. — a provider of educational apps — to directly obtain public school students’ personal data and manage it, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. The problem is connected to devices, such as personal computers and tablets, which elementary and junior high schools distribute to their students….
IDF has fended off more than three billion cyberattacks since Oct. 7
All Israel News reports: The Israeli Defense Forces have been the target of more than three billion cyberattacks since Oct. 7, said Col. Racheli Dembinsky, commander of the IDF’s Center of Computing and Information Systems (Mamram), at the “IT for IDF” conference in Rishon Lezion on Wednesday. The attacks were all intercepted and no damage…
Indonesia says it has begun recovering data after major ransomware attack
The Straits Times reports: Indonesia said it is beginning to recover data that had been encrypted in a major ransomware attack in June which affected more than 160 government agencies. The attackers, identified as Brain Cipher, asked for US$8 million (S$10.7 million) in ransom to unlock the data, before they later apologised and released the decryption key…
Notorious Hacker Kingpin ‘Tank’ Is Finally Going to Prison
Matt Burgess reports: For more than a decade, Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov—a Ukrainian who used the online hacker name “Tank”—managed to evade cops. When FBI and Ukrainian officials raided his Donetsk apartment in 2010, the place was deserted and Penchukov had vanished. But the criminal spree came to a juddering halt at the end of 2022,…
Za: South African mining giant hacked
Myles Illidge reports: Local mining giant Sibanye-Stillwater, one of the world’s biggest producers of platinum and gold, has revealed that its global IT systems have suffered a cyberattack. In a notice informing stakeholders, the company said it has implemented security measures to isolate its IT systems and protect critical data. Read more at MyBroadband.